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		oneplane on Aug 16, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: I feel trapped in my job and city It can be even worse than that: be amazing at the theory, be an amazing engineer, but being unable to make something that can be interpreted by others makes you an unacceptable risk to any company (except your own).

nightski on Aug 16, 2021 [–]

I think just about any engineer can accomplish that feat, PhD or not.

oneplane on Aug 16, 2021 | [–]

It does take some serious skill to construct something like FISR that works and is efficient, but not easily understood.

Writing crappy code is indeed are more widely available skill ;-)

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